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    DECtape, originally called Microtape, is a magnetic tape data storage medium used with many Digital Equipment Corporation computers, including the PDP-6...
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    and deleted on a DECtape as though it were a disk drive. For greater efficiency, the DECtape drive could read and write to a DECtape in both directions...
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    tape drives such as DECtape. DECtape had fixed-size indexed blocks that could be rewritten without disturbing other blocks, so DECtape could be used like...
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    system with 8 kW, punch tape, KSR-35 terminal, math coprocessor and dual DECtape was $36,000 (equivalent to $291,000 in 2024), making a complete system...
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    Input/output (I/O) includes a keyboard, printer, punched tape and dual transport DECtape drives (type 555). The standard core memory capacity is 4K words (9 KB)...
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  • a label to a magnetic tape or other magnetic medium. Initializers for DECtape format the tape into blocks. Archivers output a stream or a single file...
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  • DECtape." It was a disk oriented system, faster than its predecessor, the PDP-8 4K Disk Monitor System, with tricks to make it run quickly on DECtape...
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  • cartridge-based 3480 family.[citation needed] LINCtape, and its derivative, DECtape were variations on this "round tape". They were essentially a personal...
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  • general purpose computer coupled with the unique (pseudo "disk like") DECtape drive offered by Digital Equipment Corp. In late 1967 the company decided...
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    configuration included: 300 cps paper tape reader 50 cps paper tape punch DECtape for operating system and user files 10 cps console teleprinter, Model 33...
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    disk RX50/RX33 – 5.25-inch floppy disk TU10 – 9-track tape drive TU56 – DECtape block-addressed tape system VT05/VT50/VT52/VT100/VT220 – video display...
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    developed for the TX-2 by Tom Stockebrand which evolved into LINCtape and DECtape. Dr. Leonard Kleinrock developed the mathematical theory of packet networks...
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  • flat file system on a variety of mass storage devices including: TU56 DECtapes DF32 32KW fixed-head disks RF08 256KW fixed-head disks RK01/02/03/04/05...
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  • implemented in the first version of Unix as a method to initialize either a DECtape (using the "t" argument) or an RK03 disk pack (using the "r" argument)...
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    long life as a microcontroller. Once designed into such products as the DECtape II controller and the VT102 video terminal in the late 1970s, the 8085...
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    system within the case,: pp65–72  and supported an optional dual TU58 DECtape II block-addressable cartridge tape drive: pp73–80  which could be used...
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  • of additional DECtape drives than OS/8. "PDP-8 spare parts" (PDF). P. R.Bell; R. S. Dillon; B. E. Beasley (October 1975). "Disk/Dectape Monitor for the...
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    core memory (RAM), backed up by a hard drive of 32k and by tape storage (DecTape). EMS equipment was used to control the world's first digital studio (EMS...
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    core memory (RAM), backed up by a hard drive of 32k and by tape storage (DecTape). The earliest digital sampling was done on that system during 1971–1972...
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    An open PDP-8/E with its logic modules behind the front panel and one dual TU56 DECtape drive at the top...
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    carry the tape to a Flexowriter for offline printing. In later years, DECtape drives were added to some PDP-1 systems, as a more convenient method of...
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    When Coulouris visited UC Berkeley in the summer of 1976, he brought a DECtape containing em, and showed the editor to various people. Some people considered...
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  • DATE DA DEASSIGN DEA DELETE DEL Deletes one or more files from disk or DECtape. DIRECT DIR EDIT ED Runs EDIT. Opens an already existing file for editing...
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  • type of media that the DOS-11 operating system was distributed on (disk, DECtape, punched tape or magnetic tape). When the LICIL file was installed (Hooked)...
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    keyboard monitor system based on DIGITAL's own small magnetic tape units (DECtape). The PDP-9 established minicomputers as the leading edge of the computer...
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    floppy via its console processor, the VAX 11/750 is equipped with a TU58 (DECtape II) cassette drive for first level booting and diagnostics. A ruggedized...
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    later patented and marketed a similar design under the name DECtape; Digital's patents on DECtape were eventually tested in court and found invalid. LINCtape...
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  • solid state video camera with a 128 by 128 pixel array and C-mount lens. DECtape II drives were used for program and data storage. Autovision II, 1982,...
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    time-share a PDP-6 without a disk drive, configuring it with four dual DECtape drives "could effectively support about 4-6 simultaneous users." The same...
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  • BASIC interpreter, device files and functions for managing punched tape, DECtape, and RK05 disks. 2nd Edition Jun 12, 1972 Total number of installations...
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